Friend- a person in whom you regard and trust.
I've been thinking a lot about friendship lately, and what really makes a friend true.
Is it the way we get along with them? The way they treat us? Or, is it the unseen bond between two people that just all of a sudden one day, just appears?
It could be all three of these, or none of these. Some people put having a lot of friend,s at the top of their priorities. But the way I see it is, we don't need one hundred friends, we don't even need 10. It isn't the number that matters, but the quality.
Quality meaning, that they accept you for who you are, but are not afraid to hurt your feelings when you need to be corrected. Knowing when, what, and how to say what needs to be said. I have over one hundred friends, but less than a dozen of whom I call my closest friends.
But even your closest friends are still human, and they make mistakes.
There is only one friend who will never let us down. He is the ultimate friend, one that laid His life down, so that we could live. Now that is a true friendship.
Often I feel that we don't give Him enough of our time, that we put Him lower on our friends list than we should. But no matter how low on that list He is, He will always be the best friend we have. Unlike man, He won't leave us or forsake us, He won't gossip about us, He won't forget our birthdays. He will always love us. No matter what we do, no matter what we say about Him, He will love us. And that is what true friendship is. Loving someone when they are unlovable. No human alive today is capable of giving unconditional love. But Christ is, and we should allow him to become our best friend. We don't even have to send him a friend request, He has already sent one to us. So accept His friendship, for he is the only friend that can bring us joy, and eternal life. 
